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Memphis-based Wright Medical Group Inc. announced Wednesday, Oct. 16, it has an agreement to buy the French company Biotech International for $75 million.
Biotech is a privately held manufacturer of surgical implants and advanced fixation technologies that deal with fractures. In the case of Biotech, its devices are primarily in the extremities market. In this case, that market is for European devices for feet and ankles.
Preliminary terms of the acquisition Wednesday were $75 million to be paid at closing of the deal, with $55 million of that in cash and the remaining $20 million in Wright common stock.
The terms also include up to $5 million in cash if Biotech reaches agreed-upon revenue goals in 2014 and 2015 once it is owned by Wright.
Biotech will spin off its dental business before closing, which is anticipated by the end of this calendar year.
Memphis-based First Horizon National Corp. has been again named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the nation's most innovative users of business technology.
It's the fifth straight appearance on the list for the company, which is the parent of First Tennessee Bank. First Horizon was recognized for developing mobile banking services that keep pace with the changing preferences of business customers.
The InformationWeek 500 tracks the information technology practices of the nation's most innovative IT organizations.
Electrolux will donate $100,000 in cooking appliances and products to low-income Shelby County residents, just in time for the busy holiday season.
The company, which recently completed construction on its 750,000-square-foot Memphis manufacturing facility, will deliver Frigidaire Gallery double-oven ranges and Frigidaire countertop microwaves to Neighborhood Christian Center on Thursday, Oct. 24, for distribution to low-income Shelby County families.
The company will make a similar donation in Charlotte, N.C., where Electrolux North America has its headquarters.
Zachary Kerr, chief program officer for Neighborhood Christian Center, said the donation will help fill a large need.
"Many people request appliances from the Neighborhood Christian Center, especially ovens," said Kerr. "The high level of requests means that we often run out of ovens. This generous donation will help to meet this need; we are honored to receive this gift."
J.B. Hunt Transport Inc. volunteered to deliver the cooking products.
Shelby County residents in need of an oven or microwave should contact the Neighborhood Christian Center hotline at 881-6013. Applicants will need to provide proof of homeownership for an oven donation and proof of homeownership or rental agreement for a microwave donation; a Tennessee state ID or driver's license; their most recent pay stub or SSI statement; and a vehicle to transport the appliance.
The Memphis Area Association of Realtors has honored more than 20 industry professionals with the Realtor Emeritus designation. The Realtor Emeritus designation recognizes individuals who have held successive membership in the National Association of Realtors and a local association for 40 years.
This year's honorees, recognized Wednesday, Oct. 16, are: Russell "Rusty" Bloodworth, Bebe McWater, Edith Barlow, Gary Blume, Wanda Bowen, Sue Ruby, Mark Halperin, Charles Callis, Jerry Davidson, Nell Wade, Roger Watkins, William "Bill" C. Irby, Jeanne Lubiani-Carnes, David Peck, Kathleen Pender, Nick French, James R. Maddox Jr., Myra Quinley, Robert B. Tayloe, Duke Schaeffer, Alta Simpson, Shirley Westby and William Cary Whitehead III.
Trumbull Laboratories LLC has been awarded accreditation by the Accreditation Committee of the College of American Pathologists based on the results of a recent onsite inspection.
The CAP program has been recognized by the federal government as being equal to or more stringent than the government's own laboratory inspection program. CAP is the world's largest association composed exclusively of board-certified pathologists.
During the CAP accreditation process, inspectors examine the management of the laboratory and the laboratory's records and quality control measures for the preceding two years. CAP inspectors also examine laboratory staff qualifications, equipment, facilities, and safety programs and records.
Gov. Bill Haslam is making his annual case for Tennessee to keep its strong bond rating.
The Republican governor traveled to New York on Wednesday to meet with the three main bond rating agencies, Standard and Poor's, Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Inc.
Haslam told reporters this week that he's been asked to address the impact on the state of the partial shutdown of the federal government along with the effects of previous federal spending cuts.
Federal dollars account for about half of the state's annual $32.8 billion budget.
A Fitch analysis of all 50 states released earlier this year concluded that Tennessee's debt ratio was the lowest in the nation.
Higher bond ratings means lower interest rates on borrowing for the state.
The University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law will host an admissions workshop and recruitment fair next week.
The event on Tuesday, Oct. 22 ,from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. is free and open to the public.
The school's pre-law adviser and the dean of admissions from the law school will co-present the admissions workshop from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. Then from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., representatives from six law schools will be available to talk to interested students about their respective schools.
In addition to Memphis, the schools include the University of Tennessee, University of Mississippi, Mississippi College, Baylor University, and Belmont University School of Law. Other representatives from the University of Memphis will also be available to talk to students interested in the joint- and dual-degree programs.
Interested students should make reservations by contacting Penny Rogers at email@example.com or 678-5403.
Memphis City Council members held up Tuesday, Oct. 15, on approving the portion of the minutes from their Oct. 1 meeting that would set in motion $1.5 million in city funding for a renovation of Southbrook Mall in Whitehaven.
The council approved the measure Oct. 1 contingent on Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr.'s administration researching the legality. The funding for the improvements would come from federal funding for streetscape improvements along Elvis Presley Boulevard between Brooks Road and Shelby Drive.
But the mall may be considered a private use for which such government funding cannot be used. If it is a private use and the federal funding is used, it would jeopardize the renovation project and could lead to a withdrawal of funding for the larger streetscape project.
The administration didn't have a legal opinion Tuesday on the matter and wanted another two weeks before the council made the funding final with the approval of the meeting minutes.
In other action Tuesday, the council approved a $225 million general improvement refunding bond issue and a companion $150 million issuance of commercial paper in general obligation bonds. The bonds are part of a process of moving short-term city debt of one to three years to longer-term debt of approximately 20 years.
The council also approved a residential tax abatement program contingent on approval from the Tennessee attorney general. The measure, sponsored by council member Lee Harris, targets "tax dead" or "tax limbo" properties in which owners owe much more in back property taxes than the property is worth. The state Attorney General's office is being asked to issue a legal opinion on the program.
FedEx is planning to buy back up to 32 million shares of its common stock.
The package delivery company said that the new repurchase authorization augments the remaining 7.4 million shares under its existing buyback program. FedEx repurchased 2.8 million shares in its fiscal first quarter. The company had 317 million outstanding shares as of Sept. 30.
Last month FedEx reported that its first-quarter profit climbed 7 percent. The company also announced that it would raise prices on many U.S. shipments in January.
Loeb Properties Inc. is introducing a new branding campaign for Overton Square that pays tribute to the district's storied past while including a more modern approach.
Loeb is eschewing the speak box images that dotted the area during redevelopment and is introducing a new "Overton Square" marker.
The new signs are similar to the original ones that marked the district, but include three color schemes featuring bright colors that invoke the public art located throughout the district.
The letters O and S are also interlocked, which Loeb said provides a more modern option of an abbreviated medallion.
"The purple speak box logo was perfect for our development phase, as the image of the speak box encouraged the public to have a voice and share their ideas about what we are doing at Overton Square," said Lou Loeb, executive vice president of Asset Management for Loeb.
"As our focus turned more toward operations, we decided to bring back an updated version of the original icon as a symbol of all the public passion that made this rebirth possible."
The redesign also includes a new website, www.overtonsquare.com, created by RocketFuel.
The Shelby County Commission approved Monday, Oct. 14, an $18.2 million annual contract with Correct Care Solutions LLC to provide medical services to prisoners at the Shelby County jail and inmates at the county corrections center. The contract includes four one-year renewal periods and is the highest-dollar contract on which the commission votes.
Correct Care Solutions won a separate contract earlier this year to provide such services for children in detention at Memphis-Shelby County Juvenile Court.
Commissioner Mike Ritz led critics of the contract, saying the county should rebid it because Correct Care Solutions was the only bidder and because the contract could have been broken into parts to encourage more bidders.
Other commissioners and Luttrell said there were attempts to do that and any bidder could have bid on just one part of the contract. Luttrell also said he talked with local hospital and health care corporations about taking on the contract but got no takers.
In other action, the commission approved $750,000 in funding for the Nov. 21 city of Memphis referendum on a half-percent sales tax hike. The money is to be reimbursed to the county.
The commission also approved a $396,094 contract with the University of Memphis for Geographic Information System design and data collection services through visual stream surveys.
And commission Chairman James Harvey's ordinance to regulate used-tire dealers and haulers in the unincorporated county passed on the second of three readings.
The Memphis chapter of Black Girls CODE is hosting its fifth workshop Nov. 2 in the Nolan Engineering Building at Christian Brothers University.
The workshop will be geared toward introducing participants to animation, gaming and creating interactive stories, and no prior programming experience is required.
Core team lead Meka Egwuekwe said the organization hopes that after participating in the classes, girls decide it is easy and fun to code – and that some of them decide to pursue careers in software.
Workshops are $35 per child, with limited scholarships available. Because of limited space, parents are encouraged to register children online as soon as possible.
The workshop is open to all girls ages 10-17.
For additional information, contact Egwuekwe at firstname.lastname@example.com or 901.484.4203.
EM Printing, a provider of printing solutions, has acquired commercial printing company Jaco-Bryant Printers Inc.
Bartlett-based EM Printing bought Jaco-Bryant from 3D-eyewear manufacturer American Paper Optics.
EM Printing generated more than $4.7 million in sales in 2012, and Jaco-Bryant grossed $3 million in sales that same year. The two companies' combination will add 15 full-time employees to the EM Printing staff, maintaining all Jaco-Bryant customer-facing positions.
The Orpheum Theatre is gearing up for its 35th annual auction.
The auction, which is the organization's largest fundraiser of the year, will kick off a yearlong celebration of The Orpheum's 85th anniversary.
This year's event will begin with an online auction opening Monday, Oct. 21, at auction.orpheum-memphis.com, and will culminate Nov. 16 at 6:30 p.m. with silent and live auctions.
The silent auction will offer more than 400 items, while the live auction will feature several unique bidding opportunities, including a 2014 Nissan Pathfinder from Wolfchase Nissan, a set of 2013-2014 University of Memphis men's basketball season tickets and a trip for two to the U.S. Open golf tournament in Pinehurst, N.C.
In addition to the auctions, the Orpheum will host a live drawing for its annual raffle: a 1995 Ferrari Spider. Raffle tickets are $100 per entry.
All raffle and auction proceeds will benefit the Orpheum's new $14.5 million Centre for Performing Arts.
The Martin Institute for Teaching Excellence on Tuesday, Oct. 15, opened its set of six after-school conferences for educators in their first three years of teaching.
The New Teacher Network series begins with a session on classroom management, to be held on the campus of Presbyterian Day School, where the institute's offices are located.
The goal of the New Teacher Network is to get new teachers from public and private schools in the region to talk and network about common classroom problems and receive coaching from more experienced teachers.
Memphis-based Wunderlich Securities Inc. has initiated coverage of financial services giant Regions Financial Corp with a "buy" rating.
Wunderlich also has put a 12- to 18-month price target of $12 on Regions shares.
"Although Regions suffered significant losses during the credit crisis and was late to the recovery game, management's return to banking basics by simplifying the playbook and focusing on blocking and tackling is starting to pay off for Regions' shareholders," reads Wunderlich's first analyst commentary about Regions. "With Regions shares trading at a meaningful discount to peers, we believe current levels offer an attractive opportunity for investors to acquire shares of one of the few remaining recovery stories that also happens to operate in the most populous and fastest-growing economic regions in the U.S."
FedEx Express broke ground Thursday, Oct. 10, on a new temperature-controlled facility and heavyweight pickup and delivery operation at the FedEx Express SuperHub at Memphis International Airport.
The 88,000-square-foot facility will connect directly with Memphis hub operations, increasing efficiency for shipments throughout the FedEx Express network, while also enhancing handling of customers' cold chain shipments.
"With our new, world-class cold chain facility, we will be able to better manage health care products and other perishables in the event of unforeseen delays, such as clearance holds or inclement weather, and give our customers the peace of mind they deserve when shipping sensitive goods," Richard W. Smith, managing director, FedEx Express Life Sciences and Specialty Services, said in a release.
The new facility, which is scheduled to be complete and in operation by the fall of 2014, was designed to ensure shipments will remain within their intended temperature range, including flexible walls that allow precise temperature control and segregation of commodities. It also will have a station where dedicated personnel will monitor cold chain rooms and dry ice replenishment and gel pack exchange capabilities.
Metropolitan Bank has wrapped up a capital raise of $5.5 million, bringing the total capital raised by the bank since its inception in 2008 to more than $57 million.
Metropolitan president and CEO Curt Gabardi said the capital will be used to fuel the company's current and future organic growth over the next several years. Metropolitan has grown steadily since its founding, recently posting its 16th straight quarter of increased earnings.
In the third quarter, the bank brought in pre-tax earnings of about $2 million, up 24 percent from the second quarter. The bank has about $775 million in assets and eight banking offices.
United Housing Inc. and the Binghampton Development Corp. have been recognized by the state for their role in creating homebuyer education programs.
The Tennessee Housing Development Agency recently awarded the groups THDA's Founders Award for their efforts in creating the foundation for homebuyer education in Tennessee.
Tim Bolding and Sharon Walker of United Housing and Ruth Gibson of the Binghampton Development Corp. were ground-floor participants in Tennessee's creation of a statewide homebuyer education program.
Research shows that homebuyers who receive pre-purchase housing counseling and education were one-third less likely to fall behind on their mortgages 90 days or more two years after taking out the loan, compared to homebuyers who didn't receive similar counseling and education.
The research was done for NeighborWorks America, a national nonprofit affiliated with
United Housing, by Neil Mayer and Associates and Experian, and is based on approximately 75,000 mortgage loans originated in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
"The latest research clearly tells us that we need to help families with their housing issues ahead of time, staving off family stress, financial difficulties and costs that are borne by neighbors and the city," Bolding said.
During the last fiscal year, United Housing counseled more than 1,000 individuals and families through its programs. The organization also assisted 541 families during the year, helping 284 purchase a home while helping save 257 from foreclosure. Last year, Binghampton Development Corp. assisted 291 clients, including 76 homebuyer clients and 131 foreclosure interventions.
Mississippi's two largest universities could increase tuition by 5 percent a year over the next two years, while three smaller universities could hold tuition flat, according to a plan a College Board committee considered Wednesday.
While the board is likely to vote on the plan Thursday, rules require a second vote after 30 days. That means increases can't become final until after the board meets in November.
Average in-state tuition would rise 2.8 percent to $6,509 in 2014-2015, including mandatory facility fees, under the proposal. In 2015-2016, average tuition would rise 3 percent to $6,703.
The plans would push tuition above $7,000 a year at the University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, and the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Hoyas, Hos, & Gangstas
Posted by Jon Hanson & Michael McCann on April 12, 2007
Last month, on the eve of Georgetown University's match-up with Ohio State University in the NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four, we observed that many fans have questioned the ability of Georgetown players–who, since the 1980s, have almost all been African-American, and whose reputation has frequently centered on their "athleticism"–to "grasp" the "complex, precise" offense used by Princeton University's men's basketball team for so many years. That offense was brought to Hoyas by John Thompson III ("JT3"), son of the famed Georgetown coach John Thompson, whom Georgetown hired away from the Tigers.
We argued that the origin of these doubts can be found in the largely subconscious knowledge structures and implicit associations in our minds and reproduced and reinforced in our culture and its institutions. In other words, doubting the capacity of African-Americans to master a relatively complex and intellectually demanding playbook is not a sports phenomenon; it's an American phenomenon expressing itself in the context of college basketball.
Yesterday, we came across a column by Dan Daly in The Washington Times that provides some support for our analysis. Daly praises John Thompson III in his column, and is particularly effusive of Thompson's capacity to get regular, mainstream American folks to like Georgetown basketball players again. We have excerpted pieces of Thompson's column below (between the asterisks):
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This is a new experience, actually liking a Georgetown basketball team — liking the way it plays, the way it conducts itself on the court. You could appreciate the teams of John Thompson the Elder, their muscle and hustle, but they were hard to embrace. Indeed, they always gave the impression they didn't want to be loved, wouldn't know what to do with love, weren't all that familiar with love.
It was a pose, a lot of it — a silly pose, really, this us-against-the-world, Hoya Paranoia nonsense. But it was the program's persona nonetheless, and it served Georgetown quite well for quite some time, especially when it was going to three Final Fours in four years in the '80s. Hoyas basketball in those days was the hoops equivalent of Shock and Awe; John Thompson would roll out his bound-for-the NBA centers — Patrick Ewing, Dikembe Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning — the way Hannibal rolled out his elephants . . . and then trample the opposition.
Before long, Georgetown became the favored team of America's Young Gangstas, who made Hoyas gear their official uniform. Georgetown's chip on its shoulder, its defiance, its physicality — all resonated in the angry, might-makes-right world of the inner city. No one could have anticipated such a consequence, of course, but it was the last thing the image-challenged program needed. The Georgetown Hoyas: [notorious Washington D.C. drug dealer] Rayful Edmond's team. Talk about a good cause turned bad.
Happily, the current Hoyas are none of those things . . . .
It's a new era on the Hilltop, all right. The name's the same, but so much else has changed. One of these days, I'm firmly convinced, JT3 will recruit a white All-American; it just makes sense, given the nature of the Princeton offense.
And then the transformation will be complete.
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There is a lot to react to there, but we'll focus on just a few elements. Daly's final point, it seems, is that as Georgetown basketball players play and act more "white," and as they further distance themselves from the "gangsta" and "us-against-the-world" attitude commonly associated with urban-based, young African-American men, the more mainstream America will like them. Sadly enough, Daly is probably right, which would seem to say as much, if not more, about us and our race associations and attributions than it does about Georgetown University or Princeton University or basketball in general.
Indeed, this same point has been raised of the NBA's recent efforts to "reign in" its players, approximately 81 percent of whom are African-American. Spearheaded by Commissioner David Stern, the NBA has recently mandated a dress code of all NBA players, collectively-bargained an age limit that prevents 18-year-old men–or, as Stern likes to call them, "kids"–from entering the NBA until enough "life experience" has passed in college; and, most recently, sought to prohibit NBA players from frequenting certain nightclubs. Most believe the NBA is motivated solely by economic considerations: forcing players to appeal more to mainstream America will improve the league's popularity and generate more revenue for the league. But why does mainstream America want NBA players to look and act "more white"?
It seems the popularity of the sport of basketball or of particular teams or players depends on the extent to which they are associated with white or black stereotypes. The old Hoyas team comes off in Daly's article as not quite human — angry, overpowering, unlovable, and unloving brutes (or perhaps elephants) in need of some civilizing discipline and leadership — the stuff of traditional conceptions of black men.
As far as we know, Daly's column has elicited no significant reaction or outcry from the public. In our view, however, his analysis shares something in common with Don Imus's scandalous description of the Rutger's women's basketball. When Imus described the women as a group of "nappy-headed hos" (see video below) he was reinforcing a longstanding and still robust cultural stereotype.
Perhaps Daly's paragraphs are more palatable because he seems at times to treat the gangsta attitude or "pose" as as "silly" "nonsense." Still, in the end, his point seems to be that a complex offense requires even more "whiteness" than JT3 has been able to create with his mostly black players.
Thus both are accepting and promoting damaging negative racial stereotypes — one through a failed joke the other through a serious argument or factual claim. The point of the comparison is not to suggest that we should heap our collective scorn on Dan Daly the way that many have on Don Imus for "revealing his true (racist) disposition." Our point is to suggest the possibility that the same sort of problematic stereotyping that has given rise to the censuring, and now the firing, of Imus are often taken very much in stride — as obvious, common-sensical, even funny truisms. For a variety of reasons, our collective ire tends to be activated by some manifestations of such stereotypes but not other. To glimpse one of those reasons, it is illuminating to take a closer look at the Imus debacle.
The thrust of Don Imus's ten-minute apology on Monday (see video below) was that he and his comments should be judged within their "context." "I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice." In his exchange with Al Sharpton, Imus stated,
"I think what makes a difference, a crucial difference is: What was my intent? Am I some rabid, racist, vicious person whose on a rampage screaming and got on the radio and turned on the microphone and said 'here's what think these women are'? That's not what I did."
Elsewhere he's insisted: "I am not a racist. . . . What I did was make a stupid, idiotic mistake in a comedy context." In short, consider my situation, and don't judge my disposition.
Many Americans aren't buying it. Today-show personality Al Roker had this to say on his blog on Wednesday:
Don and his wife have done a lot of good things. Raising money for charity, including a ranch for children suffereing from cancer and blood disorders. Yet, Don Imus needs to be fired for what he said. . . . The "I'm a good person who said a bad thing" apology doesn't cut it."
Roker's point seems to be that the words speak for themselves, and they provide all the evidence we need that Imus is, his good acts notwithstanding, a racist. Mary Ellen Schoonmaker writes today that "Imus is a bully and a bigot, no matter how many good causes he's involved in." Similarly, when Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson asked why Imus would make such offensive remarks, the answer was treated as obvious: "The simple answer would be — all together now — racism." "I can accept that Imus doesn't believe he is racist, but 'nappy-headed hos' had to come from somewhere."
That "somewhere," many assume, must be his true, racist core — in his disposition. For instance, Elmer Smith, in one short op-ed, calls Imus's remarks evidence of his "raw racism," "quintessential racism," and "stone-cold racis[m]." With those dispositionist presumptions, Imus's apologies and contrition are viewed as disingenuous — a calculated, if transparent, attempt to cover up or deny the revealed truth of the matter — and his two-week suspension was seen as too weak a punishment.
We want to suggest that Imus's despicable phrase came not so much from "somewhere" in the heart of Imus, but from everywhere: from our history, our culture, our practices, and our explicit and implicit ways of making sense of our world. As has been summarized elsewhere on this blog, racial stereotypes are all around us and within us.
Such racial and gender stereotypes are neither new nor rare. They are robust and ubiquitous. They can be detected quietly swirling about in the minds of pretty much anyone who is raised in this culture. Such stereotypes and associations are likely influencing everything from what sports we like (or not) and what teams we love (or despise) to what we expect from certain players or teams and how we construe the behavior of those individuals or groups. More important, those stereotypes are probably influencing many of the interactions and attributions that occur in our society well beyond those on the basketball court. (Those are topics to which many of The Situationist contributors, including Professors Banaji, Kang, Krieger & Nosek, devote the bulk of their scholarly energy.)
In other work, one of us has explored why our reactions to comments like those Imus made are so vehement, while our reactions to slightly less blatant manifestations of racial stereotypes (such as those by Daly) are often quite anemic. There seems to be a threshold or "line" which, once crossed, elicits a response that is vastly different in kind than our response to those behaviors that fall just on the other side of that line. When we identify a "racist" — an individual reveals himself or herself to be explicitly racist — we excoriate that person, despite the fact that many common attributions reflect the same sort of cognitive presumptions or biases, although less blatantly.
Or is it "because of"? Don Imus insists, "I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person." Few could deny that Imus has many times behaved as if he were "a good person." And few among us would say anything else about himself or herself. And yet the stereotypes that we purport to abhor when articulated explicitly reside within most of us unexamined and unchallenged, sometimes wielding influence on our cognitions and behavior. We are, in a way, all carriers of the same virus that was manifested in Don Imus's remarks. Are we bad people, therefore? And, if not, why are we so eager to find that, just because "'nappy-headed hos' had to come from somewhere," that somewhere must have been Imus's racist core? (To be sure, few of us can imagine ever uttering those words in the way that Imus did, but Imus's job is to put into words, often extreme and offensive words, feelings and inklings that many in his wide audience already have.)
In her recent post on the moral obligation to be intelligent, Situationist contributor Mahzarin Banaji observed that,
"[f]rom study after study pointing to the bounds on our ability to be who we'd like to be, in a thousand different ways, the pillar of 20th century social psychology was erected to show that good people can be bad . . . and just as bad as bad people!"
We suspect that one way to avoid that moral obligation is by fixating on "the bad people" and assuring ourselves that we are not them. Put differently, by looking for and finding occasional dispositional "racists," we may be able to avoid taking seriously the possibility that racism is in the situation and thus within ourselves.
"Here's what I've learned," Imus said in his long Monday apology: "You can't make fun of everybody, because some people don't deserve it."
Imus seems to understand what he did as wrong in this case largely because he is feeling the brunt of the same weapon that he's been wielding. He is conceding that the Rutgers women don't deserve to be branded with his dispositionist label and that he, the purveyor of those hurtful remarks, doesn't deserve to branded with a dispositionist label. Imus is feeling the sting of his own venom. The sword he lives by, has stuck him in the foot (which, of course, happens to be firmly ensconced in his mouth).
Interestingly, the Rutgers Women's basketball team press conference held earlier this week had much in common with Imus's apology: Don't judge us by that label. We are good people. In fact, among us are "valedictorians, musical prodigies, future doctors and, yes, even Girl Scouts."
What Imus doesn't seem to realize is that his entire shock-jock career has been built on satisfying that craving to dispositionalize and further marginalize the vulnerable (be they members of groups that are chronically oppressed or powerful individuals who are embroiled in scandal). He trades in dispositionalizing cultural stereotypes. And just as it makes some of us laugh along as Imus has made fun virtually everybody, it brings most of us a strange sort of satisfaction to identify the racist in our midst.
But we should be troubled by both dispositionalizing tendencies. To focus our unmitigated anger on Imus is to miss the situation — not so much the situation that Imus himself would point us toward, but the situation that we ourselves are all inhaling and exhaling.
If Imus really wants to learn the lessons of this whole event, he needs to begin by understanding that his own unexamined judgment regarding who "deserves" to be laughed at or punished is likely to be terribly wrong — and that the truth is not measured by the extent to which large audiences laugh along or protest. He needs to understand that the damage is done regardless of his own perceived "intent."
If he feels unfairly judged for having unfairly judged, he should understand that he is simply the brunt of practice that is far larger than those two events. If he believes that his comments were wrong and hurtful, as he now insists they were, then he must also understand that whether or not there was "malice," he has a moral obligation to recognize that "good people can be bad . . . and just as bad as bad people."
And so do we.
24 Responses to "Hoyas, Hos, & Gangstas"
April 12, 2007 at 1:05 pm
This was a great article.
April 13, 2007 at 11:07 am
[…] I'll add to this later, I was up too late last night Really good article on the whole Imus fiasco. […]
April 13, 2007 at 12:16 pm
I can accept that Imus doesn't believe he is racist, but 'nappy-headed hos' had to come from somewhere."
It did. It came from the movie School Daze. They mentioned Spike Lee and were referencing the Jigaboos vs. The Wannabes and the song "Straight & Nappy".
April 13, 2007 at 4:06 pm
Great article. I really enjoyed the read. Take care.
April 13, 2007 at 11:50 pm
Everyone's a little bit racist!
April 14, 2007 at 12:12 am
[…] my reading of The Situationist; they keep pumping it out at a good rate. I have not even yet read this fabulous looking post. So to back up a bit for now, check out the post called "Too Many to […]
April 14, 2007 at 1:35 pm
Together now, jump on the band-wagon. Attack Imus because he said something wrong. What about the self proclaimed 'civil rights leaders' that aren't so civil? Where's the band-wagon now?
April 14, 2007 at 4:52 pm
The article raised a question for me: Suppose, for the sake of argument, that part of what Imus means when he says he was speaking in the context of comedy is that his words were not meant to be truthful. Suppose further (probably counterfactually)that the "comedic" nature of the comment was intended to lie in the fact so well articulated by your article – that the collective unconscious is ready to label successful black women with such ugly terms, but to articulate it is to raise it into absurdity by bringing it into the light of day, and making us put the ugly epithet side by side with the actual women for whom it is such a grotesquely inappropriate description.
Now, my question is – if we can suppose all of that, should the situationist welcome such a joke for bringing dark parts of the situation to light? Or renounce such a joke as doing mroe harm than good because the saying off the label reinforces its power?
It seems to me that an answer has to depend upon a view about the role of consciousness in the psychology of prejudice (and I have no grounds on which to defend any). But I'm very curious to read what you, McCann and Hanson, think about this.
April 15, 2007 at 12:18 pm
I think they are missing an important point. Specifically, where do the terms "nappy-headed" and "ho's" originate. It certainly is not from general use in the white community. Nor is it typically used by people typified as racist. They would simply call them rough looking nigger sluts. I know that from actually associating with enough of them in rural and large midwest and southern cities. In my practice, I work with people all over the midwest, southeast and on Long Island. Yes, I do find it offensive to black people. Do you consider being called a fat honkie bastard offensive enough to take a man's livelihood? I don't.
The term originates from the hip-hop music of today. It is considered appropriate by many in the black community for some reason or other. I really can't say why.
I honestly think Imus was trying to be "hip" with today's culture.
A rap group, Nappy Roots, is an indicator. The language in most rap songs is characteristic of today's society.
As Michelle Malkin wrote in an article, 'The Culture of "Bitches, Hos, and Niggas"', she quotes the lyrics of several of todays rap songs:
The No. 1 rap track is by a new sensation who goes by the name of "Mims." The "song" is "This Is Why I'm Hot." It has topped the charts for the last 15 weeks. Here's a taste of the lyrics that young men and women are cranking up in their cars:
This is why I'm hot
Catch me on the block
Every other day
Another bitch another drop
16 bars, 24 pop
44 songs, nigga gimme what you got . . .
. . . We into big spinners
See my pimping never dragged
Find me wit' different women that you niggas never had
For those who say they know me know I'm focused on ma cream
Player you come between you'd better focus on the beam
I keep it so mean the way you see me lean
And when I say I'm hot my nigga dis is what I mean
Let's move down the Billboard list, shall we? The No. 2 rap track in the nation this week is by rappers Bow Wow and R. Kelly (yes, the same R. Kelly who was indicted five years ago on a raft of child-porn charges and is still awaiting trial). The "song" is called "I'm a Flirt," and it's been on the charts for 12 weeks:
Ima b pimpin
I don't be slippin
When it come down to these hos
I don't love em
We don't cuff em
Man that's just the way it goes
I pull up in the Phantom
All the ladies think handsome
Jewelry shining, I stay stuntin'
That's why these niggas can't stand em
Ima chick mag-a-net
And anything fine I'm bag-gin it
And if she got a man, I don't care
10 toes and I wanna be, cause I gotta have it
The final line:
Now the moral of the story is cuff yo chick, 'cause hey,
I'm black, fresh, and I rap, plus I'm rich, and I'm a flirt.
Al Sharpton, I am sure, is ready to call a press conference with the National Organization for Women to jointly protest this garbage and the radio stations and big pimpin' music companies behind it.
Sadly, that's a point I don't think they will ever see. They only see things as a reason to berate another white man.
Don Imus, who I do not agree with most of the time is an entertainer. He always has insulted almost everyone – even George Bush, John Kerry, Bill Clinton and Al Gore. But, especially hillbilly's. His radio show had millions of listeners and was very profitable for MSNBC and CBS. Don Jo_____ (name disguised), a Democrat Party activist and union organizer friend at a local bar was even complaining about the show being cancelled as he always watched it in the early mornings rather than CNN or FOX. Myself and others know that watching FOX is a pariah for him as he hates anything that is balanced in any manner.
Regardless, it is interesting to watch the double standard.
If Sharpton had said something about a Mississippi white boy it would have been different. In my opinion, Imus' biggest mistake was going on Sharpton's radio show in the first place. The man does a lot of good for children with cancer. Yes, even black children. (Imagine that!) Now, thanks to the honorable reverend Sharpton, that may be minimized. It is a bad thing that happened, yet one that shows the power of the liberal media and the now apparent power of the reverend Sharpton. I cannot capitalize reverend in connection with his name because it isn't deserved.
Do you ever wonder how many deaths the reverend Sharpton is responsible for? He really likes being in the headlines. Look at the facts of his career: (I shold attribute this information to someone but honestly, I forget who originally wrote it.)
1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent — the crime never occurred — but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.
1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" — code for Jews — with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death.
1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.
And sadly it goes on even today.
If Sharpton were a white skinhead, he would be a political leper, spurned everywhere but the fringe. But far from being spurned, he is shown much deference. Democrats embrace him. Politicians court him. And journalists report on his comings and goings while politely sidestepping his career as a hatemongering racial hustler.
So, professor think what you may. The facts seem to point that you are simply led, like Bill Clinton and most of the media and professors, by the way the current political wind blows. They lick their finger and stick it in the air. Frankly they are being simple and do not actually think the subject matter through the fog. I would honestly hate to have one of them represent me in court. Maybe, because my lawyers have usually been Democrats that explains my lack of successful outcomes in the legal matters that have attacked me? In some instances they simply did not want to offend their neighbor while representing me on an opposing side. I'm beginning to think so. As all small town attorneys seem to be involved in politics, they need to assure votes and campaign money for those they support.
But, it gets votes as most people do not bother to educate themselves with the facts.
"If it looks good, it must be great." That is apparently the mantra of today's politically correct crowd that needs to be published. They are really in a bad situation. It is impossible for them to be published and write something as I did above – it simply is not politically correct. But, they can criticize today's humanity or society and draw praise to themselves. Perhaps Toby Keith said it best: "It's All About Me," the difference is they don't really care if it is the truth but instead they care about the appearance to others who may judge them.
Honestly this has made me think. It is apparent that my attorney, and his staff, did not vigorously represent me because he did not want to offend his neighbor nor his neighbor's politically powerful father in his own county. Nor did he want to spend the time representing me in a case against a bank whose Directors make large political contributions. Frankly, this fat, southern white boy is getting tired of the favoritism shown by the media and other so-presumed authority figures to people such as the much-enamored rev. Sharpton, not to mention the local perspective. I really don't think I'm alone.
April 15, 2007 at 4:26 pm
To further clarify the last part of the post, I should have known better than to hire an attorney who counts as a close friend, James Carville. Even if he and I have spent hours working closely together on other cases.
And, I even do his tax return!
April 15, 2007 at 9:49 pm
I have notice that Hip hop producers recently stated that they use phrases such as "ho's" and that it is acceptible because it is based on observation.
There is a difference between observation and exploitation.
there is a difference between freedom of speech and exploitation.
there no freedom in exploitation and no clear sight in exploitation.
As George Clinton wants said free your mind and your ass will follow.
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I've only just seen this. Very interesting, as usual, but it seems to me that you haven't followed your thesis through to its logical conclusion. Accepting the idea that "good people can be bad . . . and just as bad as bad people" isn't difficult. And, let's be honest, it doesn't require research to be backed up – anyone who observes human behaviour even tangentially is forced to that conclusion in pretty short order.
But what follows? If "good people can be bad . . . and just as bad as bad people", then it follows that such 'outrages' are going to occur with a probability equal to 1. In which case, they are no more outrages than catching a cold is an outrage. I accept Imus' statement that he's not a racist as true – I see no reason, despite this article, to believe otherwise. Less condemnation and more resilience on the part of the outraged is what's required. Life is harsh and people say silly things. Deal with it.
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If bringing up the subject of "nappy hair" makes you feel uncomfortable, shocked, pained… in whatever context, it's because YOU TOO consider it to be unattractive and subsequently a sore subject. If I privately thought those girls in the red outfits were coyote ugly by dint of some atypical racial physical features, I'd form an angry mob and call for Imus's head. But even if I didn't find myself attracted to them for those reasons, I don't pay any attention to those aspects of a person, and judge people on a case by case basis, by the content of their character, so my natural inclination would have been to condemn Imus for childish name calling. Being traumatized by it reveals that YOU secretly believe it about yourself, or about someone else. If someone said to me, "hey dork!" my main concern would be that they were childish and personal… even though I am kinda dorky looking – but I don't have beliefs about myself that make it a traumatizing concern.
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The same judge who handed Viacom another defeat in its copyright infringement lawsuit against YouTube last month has denied class-action status to a huge population of video copyright owners whose works were posted on YouTube without their permission.
In a case running parallel to the infamous Viacom v. YouTube suit the English Premier League, French Tennis Federation, and various music publishers sued the Google-owned YouTube in 2007 "on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated," and in 2010 formally asked to be certified as a class. The proposed class would contain people or entities whose copyrighted work was posted on YouTube on or after April 15, 2005 without their permission.
To be eligible for the class victims of infringement must fall into one of two subclasses. One subclass would include victims of repeat infringers such as people who asked YouTube to take videos down but said videos either remained on the site or were taken down and then posted again. A second subclass would include just music publishers who were victims of copyright infringement on YouTube when the service "knew or should have known" about the infringement because of a notification from the copyright holder, "or because [YouTube] otherwise identified, tracked or monitored it, or could have identified it, including through tools offered to owners of sound recordings of musical compositions."
"A music publisher subclass is appropriate because of the prevalence of unlicensed copyrighted music on YouTube and defendants' knowing disregard for the rights of many music publishers," the plaintiffs said.
In a ruling yesterday (PDF) Judge Louis Stanton of US District Court in New York ripped these arguments to shreds. Stanton wrote that granting class action status to any copyright holder infringed by YouTube users would create a "Frankenstein monster posing as a class action." (Stanton borrowed the Frankenstein monster phrasing from a judge who made a similar ruling in a case involving stock traders 45 years ago.)
Each copyright case is unique, just like copyrights themselves
Stanton explained that granting class action status to such a large group of copyright holders would make the case unmanageable and that each instance of infringement is unique, making it inappropriate to treat them all as part of the same class.
"Plaintiffs offer no explanation of how the worldwide members of this proposed class are to be identified, how they are to prove copyright ownership by themselves or by their authorized agent, or how they will establish that defendants became aware of the specific video clips which allegedly infringed each of the potentially tens of thousands of musical compositions incorporated into specific videos," Stanton wrote. "Unless an exception applies, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act requires that YouTube have legal knowledge or awareness of the specific infringement, to be liable for it. Defendant YouTube does not generate infringing material: it offers a website on which others post video clips, some of which infringe material in copyrighted works."
Stanton went on to write that copyright claims are generally poor candidates for class action treatment because they have only superficial similarities. Beyond common traits like proving ownership of a copyright and that YouTube failed to remove a copyrighted work from the website, each case "must be resolved upon facts which are particular to that specific claim of infringement," he wrote.
Proving that YouTube willfully disregarded copyright requires individualized evidence that "a copyright holder gave notices containing sufficient information to permit the service provider to identify and locate the infringing material so that it would be taken down." The claims of any one plaintiff aren't typical of the claims of an entire class because "[b]y their very nature, copyrightable works of art are each unique, and what infringes one work will probably have no effect upon another." Each case must deal with questions of "title, assignment, waiver and fair use" that are better left to individual litigations.
"Thus, accumulation of all the copyright claims, and claimants into one action will not simplify or unify the process of their resolution, but multiply its difficulties over the normal one-by-one adjudications of copyright cases," Stanton wrote.
Economic need also can't justify class action status because "the availability of statutory damages is designed to give litigation value to each individual case."
Besides class action status being inappropriate, Stanton noted that he has already dealt with the issues raised by the copyright holders in his ruling in favor of YouTube in the Viacom case. "While Viacom claimed YouTube knew about specific infringing videos and failed to remove them, Viacom was unable to point to any specific examples of clips YouTube failed to remove despite knowing they were infringing," we wrote in describing that ruling.
The case involving the English Premier League and music publishers may not be over, though.
"Charles Sims, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at the law firm Proskauer Rose, said his clients were 'going to think about their options,' including asking the court for permission to appeal," Reuters reported yesterday.
The Premier League was originally joined by the National Music Publishers' Association in suing YouTube although that group settled with YouTube in 2011, Reuters noted. Plaintiffs still include music publishers such as Bourne Co, Cal IV Entertainment, Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, Edward B. Marks Music Company, Beinstock Publishing Company, Alley Music Corporation, X-Ray Dog Music, Music Force Media Group, and Sin-Drome Records.


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Lincecum, Giants top Reds 8-3, tying NLDS at 2-all
October 11, 2012
CINCINNATI (AP) — Facing elimination again, the San Francisco Giants came out swinging. Got a saving relief appearance from Tim Lincecum, too.
Angel Pagan led off the game with a home run, Gregor Blanco and Pablo Sandoval connected later and the Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-3 on Wednesday, evening their NL division series at 2-all.
Lincecum, the two-time Cy Young winner relegated to the bullpen, also delivered. He entered in the fourth with the Giants ahead 3-2, struck out six while giving up just one run in 4 1-3 innings, and allowed his team to pull away.
The Giants can complete an unprecedented comeback on Thursday. No team has recovered from a 2-0 deficit in a best-of-five series by winning three on the road, according to STATS LLC.
Matt Cain, who lost the series opener and has yet to beat the Reds in three tries this season, will start Game 5 against Mat Latos.
The Giants' hitters emerged from a series-long slump and extended Cincinnati's playoff misery. The Redshaven't won a postseason game at home in 17 years.
One thing in the Reds' favor — they haven't dropped three straight at home all season.
The Reds were hoping to start ace Johnny Cueto, but had to drop him off the roster a few hours before Wednesday's first pitch because he was still bothered by a strained muscle in his right side. He won't be available if Cincinnati wins Game 5 and reaches the NL championship series.
The way the Giants have started hitting, that's now in doubt.
San Francisco managed only four runs in the first three games of the series. The Giants avoided the sweep by pulling out a 2-1 win in 10 innings on Tuesday night with the help of a passed ball and an error by third baseman Scott Rolen.
They broke out against Mike Leake, who replaced Cueto and had a rough time. Leake threw his first career complete game in San Francisco on June 29 and was 3-0 career against the Giants.
Pagan homered on his second pitch of the game. Blanco hit a two-run shot in the second. The Giants had another breakthrough in the fifth, when back-to-back doubles by Joaquin Arias and Pagan ended an 0-for-14 slump with runners in scoring position during the series.
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While the offense went to work, Lincecum bailed out the bullpen.
Manager Bruce Bochy didn't hesitate to put the guys he wanted on the mound, using four pitchers in the first four innings. Lincecum got the final out in the fourth and kept going, allowing only two hits in his second relief appearance of the series.
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The Mountain View company said Thursday it was lending its backpack cameras to a Hawaii trail guide company to capture panoramic images of Big Island hiking trails.
Photos will be loaded to Google Maps and the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau website, gohawaii.com.
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Google has already taken Street View images of the Grand Canyon and other places popular with travelers.
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Rebecca E. Hollander-Blumoff has recently posted her excellent paper, "Crime, Punishment, and the Psychology of Self-Control" (Emory Law Journal, Vol. 61, No. 501, 2012) on SSRN. Here's the abstract:
Criminal law rests on the assumption that individuals — most of the time — have free will. They act in ways that they choose to act, exercising control over their own behavior. Despite this central role of free will and self-control in the conceptualization of criminal responsibility, criminal law scholars have not, to date, considered the implications of decades of research in social psychology on the mechanisms of self-control. This article suggests that examining current social psychology research on self-control offers a novel way to amplify our thinking about crime and punishment, helping to make sense of the way that the law has developed, casting doubt on the descriptive validity of legal perspectives on self-control and crime, and offering potential guidance as we think about appropriate levels of culpability and punishment.
Two important broad insights come from examining this psychological research. First, by considering self-control failure at the micro level — in a particular moment of action or inaction — psychological research on self-control helps uncouple self-control questions from broader questions about the existence of free will. The roots of failure to control one's behavior, important though they may be, are separate from the question of an individual's ability to do so at a specific time and place. Psychology's robust findings on the fine-grained aspects of self-control suggest that self-control is a concept with meaning and usefulness for the law, regardless of one's viewpoint about the existence of free will. Second, taking psychological research on self-control seriously indicates that criminal law may vastly underdescribe the scope of situations in which an individual lacks the ability to control her actions. That is, acts that the law calls "uncontrolled" are a mere subset of the behavior that psychology would call "uncontrolled." The mismatch between the scope of self-control as described by psychology and criminal law helps to highlight that notions of self-control in the law are inherently constructed by the law itself, rather than reflecting some empirical reality, and that any efforts to define and understand the concept and role of self-control in law as purely positive, rather than normative, are misguided.
Related Situationist posts:
- The Situation of the Self
- The Situation of Self-Regulation
- The Situation of Willpower
- Friends on the Brain
- The Situation of Temptation
- David Vitter, Eliot Spitzer, John Edwards, Jon Ensign, and Now Mark Sanford: The Disposition Is Weaker than the Situation,
- Bargh and Baumeister and the Free Will Debate — Part I & Part II
- The Death of Free Will and the Rise of Cheating
- Interview of Eric Kandel
- Coalition of the Will-less
- Dan Dennett – "Free Will, Responsibility, and the Brain"
- Dan Dennett at Harvard Law on 'Free Will, Responsibility, and the Brain'
- Interview with Professor Joshua Greene
- Daniel Dennett on the Situation of our Brain
- Dan Dennett on our Interior Situation
- The Death of Free Will and the Rise of Cheating
- Clarence Darrow on the Situation of Crime and Criminals
- Person X Situation X System Dynamics
- Situation" Trumps "Disposition" – Part I & Part II
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Bravettes try to shake Shirk streak
It's back to the Shirk Center for the Annawan Bravettes.
The way Bravettes coach Jason Burkiewicz sees it, a win at Illinois Wesleyan University has to be coming his way.
"The first thing we have to address is that we have not won at Wesleyan and I'm sure that's going to come up," said Burkiewicz following his team's 64-44 Class 1A IVCC Sectional title win over Hinckley-Big Rock Thursday night. "We haven't won at State Farm and we didn't win last year, but we're going to get one this year."
His Bravettes are 0-3 in the State Farm Holiday Classic at IWU, and lost to LeRoy 56-53 in last year's Elite 8 battle at the Shirk Center.
"If you want to go a step farther, we haven't won in baseball down there either," said Burkiewicz, who's also an assistant coach for the Annawan-Wethersfield baseball team. "I'm 0-6 in the two sports."
The Bravettes have an opportunity to end that Bloomington skid Monday night at 7:30 when they meet Iroquois West in the Illinois Wesleyan Super-Sectional. IW spoiled an Elite 8 rematch by defeating LeRoy 46-35 to win the Fisher Sectional.
Annawan's return to the Elite 8 wasn't without its challenges Thursday night against a scrappy H-BR squad. Every time the Bravettes claimed some breathing room, the Lady Royals battled back. H-BR cut double-digit leads to single digits in both the second and fourth quarters, before finally wilting under Annawan's relentless defensive pressure. The Bravettes forced 41 H-BR turnovers and recorded a jaw-dropping 29 steals.
"We count on it," said Burkiewicz of his team's defense. "It's funny, when I took over this program I wasn't a zone person at all. That's all we do now. We just try to get in the passing lanes and try to make it difficult for the other team to score. We definitely have the players for it."
The Bravettes, however, did struggle in creating points off of those turnovers.
"That's the key, to finish it off with layups and that kind of puts a team away. When we were missing, I think that kept giving them confidence to stay in the game," said Burkiewicz.
Annawan led by 15 points on two occasions in the second quarter, but an 8-1 H-BR run to close the half pulled the Lady Royals within 34-26.
Much like the regional title win over Wethersfield, Megan Foes fueled a third-quarter surge for the Bravettes. She scored nine points in an 13-2 run to start the second half that pushed the margin to 47-28.
"We needed to make our run. We count on it every game to get it at some point," said Burkiewicz. "That was the quarter that kind of helped us through. We struggled in a lot of aspects of the game tonight (Thursday). I think the girls got a wakeup call."
H-BR made one last gasp, trimming the deficit to 49-40 early in the final quarter, but Annawan went on a 14-4 run down the stretch to seal its second straight sectional title.
Celina VanHyfte filled the stat sheet for the 28-2 Bravettes — 21 points, 15 rebounds, six steals, five assists and four blocks.
Foes finished with 13 points and a team-high seven steals, while Maddie Jackson added 11 points.
Burkiewicz confessed he'd like a rematch with LeRoy Monday night, but Iroquois West denied that desire. Annawan and IW do have a common opponent in Champaign St. Thomas More. The Bravettes lost to the Class 2A power 62-58 in overtime at the State Farm Holiday Classic in December, while St. Thomas More blasted IW 84-30.
"I'm sure that will give the girls a little bit of confidence since we played them (St. Thomas More) so tough," said Burkiewicz. "It doesn't matter who's there, we need to play good basketball. We need to finally break through on this."
Davis debuts at sectional
Alleman transfer Cierra Davis made her debut for the Bravettes Thursday night, adding some depth to any already talented team.
Davis entered the game at the 7:07 mark of the second quarter. She rattled in a 3-pointer and made 2 of 5 free throws in a five-minute stretch.
"She knows limited stuff within our playbook and we have to keep it simple when she's in, but I thought it was important to get her some minutes," said Burkiewicz. "She came off the floor and said she felt like everything was going a thousand miles per hour."
Davis returned in the second half and finished with five points, three steals and three rebounds.
"We knew the time was now to get her in and she said she felt comfortable," said Burkiewicz. "She actually played a little bit more than I thought she would. Once she settles down, she'll definitely be a weapon."


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winter picking
abandoned nests
snag clear lines of bare trees–
the pain of leaving
A picking that has eased the bareness of winter–that's my jornal from this haiku.
December 23, 2009 Posted by alee9 | haiku, poetry | abandoned, bare trees, nest | 2 Comments
foam on the waves
foam on the waves–
in the wind her skirt clings
Edited version of haiku no.2 under 'summer returnees'. Thanks to Emma!
December 17, 2009 Posted by alee9 | haiku, poetry, Uncategorized | foam, waves, wind | 3 Comments
summer returnees
on the marsh
a heron makes a step–
foam on the waves–
the hem of her skirt heavier
on ferry ride
the flight path of a seagull
ends behind my eye
My 'jornal'? Memories in snap shots that keep returning.
December 15, 2009 Posted by alee9 | haiku, poetry | ferry ride, heron, seagull, waves | 2 Comments
autumn wind
wondering about lilies
in a mountain pond
Tell me a writer who really gets a satisfying jornal, in Spanish a daily wage or its equivalent, and I'll bare a spirit in constant bouts of doubtfulness. Does a writer earn more because of what he writes and how he does it? Or is a writer paid more or less because of who he is? Is it money or honor he expects to receive?
Ahhh … but money as wage, and praise or honor as reward would be too predictable, too common as Job lamented in the Book of Job. It is in these lines that read: "Is not man's life on earth nothing more than pressed service, his times no better than hired drudgery? Like the slave, sighing for the shade, or the workman with no thought but his wages, months of delusion I have assigned to me, nothing for my own but nights of grief. Lying in bed I wonder, 'When will it be day?' Risen I think, 'How slowly evening comes!'
Restlessly I fret till twilight falls. Swifter than a weaver's shuttle my days have passed, and vanished, leaving no hope behind. Remember that my life is but a breath, and that my eyes will never again see joy."
Not money but joy is the ultimate wage as the passage implies. And joy is not hard to earn for it is in everyday life if we have eyes to see, a nose to smell, fingers to touch, ears to hear–a heart beating. This to me, is how a writer earns a daily wage. His wages then take the guise of treasures his heart can transfigure into a universe of thought that taps into other hearts, that causes a swirl in the depth of other souls, or that makes wings to sprout on leaden heels.
Sometimes not joy but rueful, poignant moments are my pick. Take what I earned once: On my walk home in my neighborhood, I caught two clumps of snowdrops–such tiny blossoms smaller than fingertips that do not look up but shyly droop close to black patches on the ground winter has frozen. That afternoon in the frosty wind, they trembled as if ready to turn away and run but how could they? For that poignant moment on seeing the wintry rain beat on the fragile snowdrop–as if pushing it to go home now, go to sleep–I earned my jornal, my daily wage.
Once on summer walk, the crackle of dried leaves just hit me both like the laughter of children and sobs long suppressed. Neither one of them would resolve the dryness, but I recalled how each does bring tears: laughter for joy, sobs for healing that comes with the release of a dammed-up pain. My jornal that day came as two haiku.
Fall has since shortened the day and the heart begins to crave for lost space that it doesn't even recall which or where. I feel that most treasures have turned into mush so much so I wouldn't be able to sift them off the ground. Yet I caught the dying day yesterday–so glorious in the gold of autumn it opened a flip side of serene heaven. Blades of grass coated in diadems of rain that carpet the lawns render royal walks poor by imitation. A burst of red maple against an inky blue sky humbled me, a soul bragging about her skill to recreate beauty in words.
I suppose I'm taking Job's reflections to heart. I'd rather not gloss over each day and look beyond what's there, right before me, or else fragile as is my breath one day "my eyes may never again see joy" to write. With what then will I compare the eternal joy, the ultimate wage I await?
Yet for now, as other eyes hanker to make the invisible visible, I put a tag on some moments of joy. Like on seeing the snowdrops, I paid myself $200 as my jornal.
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